Our laser lab was resplendent with scopes and meters from LeCroy, Agilent, and SRS. Now I know why we always went out for cheese steaks after using the LeCroy. I wonder if LeCroy had a subliminal contract with the anti-cholesterol pharmaceuticals industry...

So you literally burned in your resistors by burning them in? Brilliant. BTW, you're lucky your fried cheese steak dinner didn't kill you before you got to the lab to come up with your gastronomically inspired solution.

Industrial workplaces are governed by OSHA rules, but this isn’t to say that rules are always followed. While injuries happen on production floors for a variety of reasons, of the top 10 OSHA rules that are most often ignored in industrial settings, two directly involve machine design: lockout/tagout procedures (LO/TO) and machine guarding.

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